jimrandomh comments on Spring 2010 Meta Thread - Less Wrong

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Comment author: jimrandomh 29 March 2010 03:08:33AM *  7 points [-]

My polling code for Less Wrong is now (mostly) complete. Check it out with 'git clone http://github.com/jimrandomh/lesswrong.git'. The syntax for creating a poll in a comment is:

Which choice? [poll]{First choice}{Second choice}{Third choice}
How much do you agree? [poll: Agree.....Disagree]
How likely? [poll: probability]
How many? [poll: number]

The first is a conventional multiple-choice poll, with the options in curly braces. The second gives radio buttons along a scale, with labels (such as Agree/Disagree) on the left and right. After you've submitted a ballot, it will show you the vote breakdown. There are also probability and number polls, for which you can get the mean and median. There is also a 'raw data' link, which provides a CSV file with all of the votes broken down by question and user (either their username, if they unchecked the 'vote anonymously' box, or a number), so people can do fancy analysis on the results.

The main areas that still need work are the templates (the results look a little ugly), error handling, and bug-testing. If all goes well, it should be ready to deploy on Less Wrong in another week or two.

Comment author: rhollerith_dot_com 27 September 2010 05:15:59PM 2 points [-]

What is the status of this attempt to add support for polls to Less Wrong please?

Comment author: jimrandomh 27 September 2010 05:33:51PM 2 points [-]

Mostly finished, but lost motivation due to lack of feedback - I heard that a test was set up on an internal Benton house server, but never saw it or heard what the results were, and other things took precedence. I plan to come back to this, but need a better test environment or the same thing will happen again.

Comment author: AdeleneDawner 20 May 2011 09:57:20AM 0 points [-]

I was going through the top-rated comments list, and found the several-greats grandparent - did this ever make any more progress?

Comment author: jimrandomh 20 May 2011 10:57:22AM 0 points [-]

Unfortunately not. The code from where I left off is still up on github, if anyone wants to pick it up. (The URL seems to have changed - it's now https://github.com/jimrandomh/lesswrong instead of https://github.com/jimrandomh/lesswrong.git).

Comment author: Kevin 29 March 2010 03:12:47AM 0 points [-]

:) Thanks! I am excited.